For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
January 27, 2006

Nominations Sent to the Senate

Thomas P. D'Agostino, of Maryland, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, Vice Everet Beckner, resigned.

Randall S. Kroszner, of New Jersey, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 1994, vice Edward M. Gramlich, resigned.

Boyd Kevin Rutherford, of Maryland, to be an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, vice Michael J. Harrison, resigned.

Kevin M. Warsh, of New York, to be a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the unexpired term of fourteen years from February 1, 2004, vice Ben S. Bernanke, resigned.

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